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Massimo Flore
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Not surprised by any of this. 👇
It's unbelievable how trump's petty hatred against Obama destabilised the middle east, destroyed decades of diplomatic work, estranged historical allies, wasted billions of $, killed thousands, and made a rogue, oppressive, dangerous country stronger.
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Trump phone story is a peculiar one. In this instance, he is grifting his own most loyal supporters. It represents an unprecedented level of money grabbing, leaving U.S. institutions with a massive task to restore normalcy. If they survive.
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This is the inevitable result when incompetence meets arrogance.
The Trump administration managed to destroy U.S. global hegemony in less than two years. It took decades to build, yet so little time to dismantle.
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This looks like institutionalized post disinformation. Not just contesting results, but weakening the conditions that make outcomes binding. In 2020 institutions still closed the conflict. Now the risk is a system where closure no longer holds.
Help me understand: China helps Iran targeting US bases with their satellites, but we cannot help Ukraine against Russia. The reason given is "russia nuclear weapons". What about US nuclear weapons? Are they less scary?
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Most reactions to Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas seem trapped in the news cycle. Some see confirmation of their own views, or political targets.
📬 This week, Future Frontiers argues that the encyclical becomes intelligible when read on the Vatican's timescale.
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A new interpretability tool lets developers look inside LLMs and trace the circuits behind their answers, and even intervene.
The interesting shift is here, we move from explaining outputs after the fact to shaping how they are produced.
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Lesson to America: this is what Biden and the democrats had not the courage to do in 2020. And now, everyone is paying the consequences.
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The deal sees both sides commit to further talks to reach a final agreement over the next 60 days and includes a $300 billion plan for Iran's reconstruction.
Hungary plans to amend the constitution to oust the country’s president as Prime Minister Peter Magyar presses ahead with a plan to dismantle Viktor Orban’s regime.
Once upon a time, while studying disinfo about the civil war in Syria, I posted my thoughts on Gabbard as a down-the-rabbit-hole serial repeater of Russian-Iranian-Syrian propaganda. Then Jack Dorsey jumped into my DMs telling me I had it all wrong. Strange times. And yet still not as weird as this.
China doesn't need to beat America's AI. It just needs to write the rules everyone else has to follow. warontherocks.com/2026/05/chin...
China’s diplomats are on an “AI governance” offensive. At a May 5 United Nations meeting, China’s vice minister of science and technology championed
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You're gonna want to read this.
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Kate Starbird
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.
NEW: In 2020, as President Trump tried to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — barely.
A @propublica.org investigation found that, ahead of the midterms, Trump has systematically demolished those guardrails. 🧵
